International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change IHDP Core Scientific Project

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International Human Dimensions Programme on
Global Environmental Change (IHDP) Core
Scientific Project of Integrated Risk Governance
(CSP-IRG)
International Workshop on Global Environmental
Change and Integrated Risk Governance

• Drafting Group of CSP-IRG for IHDP
• Working Group for Risk Governance-CNC-IHDP
• Secretariat of CNC-IHDP
• June 7, 2007, Beijing China

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Proposal for Establishment of IHDPIntegrated
Risk Governance (IRG) Core Science Project

• CNC-IHDP/RG Working Group
• China National Committee(CNC)-IHDP

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• ESSP
• IHDP
• IGBP
• WCRP
• DIVERSITAS

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• IGBP-Projects
• AIMES Analysis, Integration and Modeling of the
  Earth System
• GLOBEC Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics
• GLP Global Land Project
• IGAC International Global Atmospheric Chemistry
• ILEAPS Integrated Land Ecosystem-Atmosphere
  Process Study
• IMBER Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and
  Ecosystem Research
• LOICZ Land-Ocean Interaction in the Coastal Zone
• PAGES Past Global Changes
• SOLAS Surface Ocean-Lower Atmosphere Study
• Completed Projects By IGBP
• BAHC Biosphere Aspects of the Hydrological Cycle
  (1991-2003)
• DIS Data and Information System (1993-2001)
• GAIM Global Analysis Integration and Modeling
  (1993-2004)
• GCTE Global Change Terrestrial Ecosystem
  (1993-2004)
• JGOFS The Joint Global Ocean Flux Study
  (1988-2003)
• LUCC Land Use and Cover Change (1994-2005)

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• IHDP Projects
• GECHS Global Environmental Change and Human
  Security
• IDGEC Institutional Dimensions of Global
  Environmental
• Change
• IT Industrial Transformation
• LUCC Land Use and Cover Change (Co-sponsored
  with IGBP)
• LOICZ Land-Ocean Interaction in the Coastal Zone
  
• (Co-sponsored with IGBP)
• UGEC Urbanization and Global Environmental
  Change
• GLP Global Land Project (Co-sponsored with IGBP)

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• IHDP Projects
• GECHS Global Environmental Change and Human
  Security
• IDGEC Institutional Dimensions of Global
  Environmental
• Change
• IT Industrial Transformation
• LUCC Land Use and Cover Change (Co-sponsored
  with IGBP)
• LOICZ Land-Ocean Interaction in the Coastal Zone
  
• (Co-sponsored with IGBP)
• UGEC Urbanization and Global Environmental
  Change
• GLP Global Land Project (Co-sponsored with IGBP)

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Preliminary Work 1
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Preliminary Work 2
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Drafting committee of IHDPIRG suggestion

• Scientific advisers
• Honglie Sun Academician of Chinese Academy of
  Science,Chairman of CNC-IHDP advisory committee.
• Dadao Lu Academician of Chinese Academy of
  Science,administrative commissioner of the
  CNC-IHDP
• Yanhua Liu Academician of Asia-Eurpe Academy of
  Science,Chairman of CNC-IHDP
• Roger Kasperson Academician of America Academy of
  Science,Life Professor of Clark University, USA.
• Norio Okada Director of Disaster Prevention
  Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan.

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CONTENTS

• 1. Scientific Target and Research Scope of IRG
• 2. Significance of IHDP-IRG Core Scientific
  Project
• 3. Progress and Development Trend of IRG
  Research
• 4. Research Scope and Key Scientific and
  Technological Issues for IHDP-IRG Core
  Scientific Project
• 5. Implementation Measures for IRG Scientific
  Project

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Tsunami Disaster Risks
Indian Ocean Tsunami on Dec. 26th, 2004
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Hurricane Disaster Risks
Hurricane Katrina on Aug. 28th, 2005 in New
Orleans of America
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Flood Disaster Risks

Flood in Yangtze River Basin of China in Summer
Autumn,1998
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Drought Disaster Risks
Severe Drought with a return period of one
hundred year in ChongQing, China, August, 2006
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1. Scientific Target and Research Scope of IRG

• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 Overall target of IRG
• 1.3 Validation and application of IRG
  achievements
• 1.4 Research method for IRG

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1.1 Introduction
Scientific Target and Research Scope of IRG

• Integrated Risk Governance (IRG)
• is an inter-discipline core scientific project
• aim to elevate the understanding of integrated
  disaster risks and capacity for transfer of
  disaster risks
• The scientists of IRG Committee are striving to
• study the dynamic and non-dynamic mechanism of
  formation and change of global and regional
  disaster risks
• provide the operational assessment tools for
  formulating policies of transferring disaster
  risks

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Scientific Target and Research Scope of IRG
Extensive Research Field of IRG
Core Scientific Issues of IRG
Extensive Research Subjects of IRG
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1.2 Overall target of IRG
Scientific Target and Research Scope of IRG

• Overall target of IRG is to
• enhance the understanding of formation mechanism,
  and risk transfer approaches of large-scale
  disasters, with special emphasis on new
  knowledge, new technology and new management
  paradigm.
• Rational of IRG is to
• move disaster risk reduction to disaster risk
  transfer by integrating national sciences and
  social sciences.
• Short-term target of IRG is to
• develop more advanced approaches to understand
  the formation mechanism of disaster risks
• design the regional disaster reduction modeling
• detect the integrated disaster risks on both
  global and regional scales.

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1.3 Validation and application of IRG
achievements
Scientific Target and Research Scope of IRG

• Validation measures available for IRG scientific
  research achievements
• Establishment and application of different
  scientific networks
• The methodology of IRG research will be also
  improved and reinforced
• Research workers will assess and verify such
  deliveries.
• High-quality IRG research achievements could
• be transformed into a base for inventing regional
  disaster risk governance technology
• become a base for making a policy for regional
  disaster risk governance

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1.4 Research method for IRG
Scientific Target and Research Scope of IRG

• The qualitative description, statistical analysis
  and system integration quantitative analysis
  method normally are combined for application
• The descriptive research method
• explains the evolution of regional disaster risk
• reveals the regional disaster vulnerability,
  resilience and adaptation
• The method based on substitute parameters
• pursue to master the role of single factor in the
  regional disaster risk system
• The method based on the systematic method
• stresses on the mode and strength of all factors
  interaction (feedback mechanism) in the regional
  disaster risk system the systems structure and
  function between vulnerability, resilience and
  adaptation

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Scientific Target and Research Scope of IRG
Research method of IHDP-IRG

• Synthesis of three conventional understandings
• Observation description
• Simulation
• Integration

IHDP-IRG System Synthesis and Integration Method
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2. Significance of IHDPIRG Core Scientific
Project

• 2.1 Increasing Global Risks due to Global
  Environmental Change
• 2.2 Diffusing Risks due to Globalization
• 2.3 Development of IRG Science and Technology
  for the Global Sustainable Development

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2.1 Increasing Global Risks due to Global
Environmental Change
Significance of IHDPIRG Core Scientific Project

• Global warming has contributed to the increase of
  disaster risks
• Increases the frequency of extreme weather
  events
• Affects the normal operation of infrastructure
• Impacts the service capacity of the earth
  ecological system
• Leads to the rising of sea level

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Significance of IHDPIRG Core Scientific Project
Changes of surface temperature and the frequency
of major disasters
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Significance of IHDPIRG Core Scientific Project
Changes of snow cover and the frequency of major
disasters
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Significance of IHDPIRG Core Scientific Project
Changes of sea level and the frequency of major
disasters
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Significance of IHDPIRG Core Scientific Project
Changes of surface temperature and disaster losses
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Significance of IHDPIRG Core Scientific Project
Changes of snow cover and disaster losses
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Significance of IHDPIRG Core Scientific Project
Changes of sea level and disaster losses
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2.2 Diffusing Risks due to Globalization
Significance of IHDPIRG Core Scientific Project

• Acceleration of Globalization and Regionalization
  brings
• Worldwide insurance and reinsurance
• Worldwide market risks
• Worldwide network risks

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2.3 Development of IRG Science and Technology
for the Global Sustainable Development
Significance of IHDPIRG Core Scientific Project

• Yokohama Declaration(1994) and Hyogo
  Declaration(2005)
• raise the capacity of responding to different
  disaster risks
• The Sixth IHDP Open Science Conference (Bonn,
  2005 ) and The International Disaster Reduction
  Conference (Davos, 2006)
• sustainable development and disaster risks
  reduction
• International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
  (UN-ISDR)
• establish the social system with coexistence of
  risks

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3. Progress and Development Trend of IRG Research

• 3.1 International Strategy for Disaster
  Reduction and Integrated Disaster Risk
  Management
• 3.2 Focus of International Organizations and
  Institutions on Disaster Reduction and Risk
  management
• 3.3 Adjustment of World Disaster Reduction
  Strategy after the 2nd WCDR
• 3.4 Major Progress and Development Trend of
  International Disaster Reduction since 2006 Davos
  International Disaster Reduction Conference
• 3.5 Major issues of integrated disaster risk
  management at the 6th International Integrated
  Disaster Risk Forum
• 3.6 IRG Studies in China
• 3.7 Development Trend

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3.1 International Strategy for Disaster
Reduction and Integrated Disaster Risk
Management
Progress and Development Trend of IRG Research

• International Decade for National Disaster
  Reduction (IDNDR)
• Hyogo Declaration (January 17 to 22, 2005 )
• Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 Building
  the Resilience of Nations and Communities to
  Disaster, HFA
• Congress of Member Countries of ISDR in Geneva
  from June 5 to 7, 2007 Establishment Global
  Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP/DRR)

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Progress and Development Trend of IRG Research
3.2 Focus of International Organizations and
Institutions on Disaster Reduction and
Risk management
RMA (1914) SRA (1980) IRGC (2003)
World Bank (1993) IIASA-DPRA (2001) OECD (2006)
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3.3 Adjustment of World Disaster Reduction
Strategy after the 2nd WCDR
Progress and Development Trend of IRG Research

• Summit Forum on Disaster Reduction
• Regional Forum on Disaster Reduction
• Public Forum on Disaster Reduction
• Special Forum on Disaster Reduction

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3.4 Major Progress and Development Trend of
International Disaster Reduction since
2006 Davos IDRC
Progress and Development Trend of IRG Research

• A new age for risk management primary
  establishment of the integrated disaster risk
  science system
• Improvement and rebuilding of ecological
  systemthe key infrastructure required for
  development in the risk society
• Focus on the close correlation between global
  environmental change and disaster riskimportant
  reason for disaster risks to increase
• Emphasis on utilization of financial and
  insurance, re-insurance measures to transfer
  risksopportunity and challenge for natural
  disaster insurance

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3.4 Major Progress and Development Trend of
International Disaster Reduction since
2006 Davos IDRC
Progress and Development Trend of IRG Research

• Concerns over the role of women in the disaster
  risk management vulnerable groups of natural
  disasters and importance for rural disaster
  reduction
• Concerns on the enhancing part of terrorism in
  social riskreduce the regional conflicts and
  realize the harmonious existence
• Development of an information support platform
  for disaster risk managementestablish the
  information-sharing system for the disaster risk
  management
• Importance of integrated disaster reduction in
  high-risk regionskey regions for integrated
  disaster risk management

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3.5 Major issues of integrated disaster risk
management at the 6th International
Integrated Disaster Risk Forum
Progress and Development Trend of IRG Research

• The way for business and industry to cope with
  disaster risk
• Integrated management of earthquake and flood
  disaster risk
• Cultivation of consciousness for disaster risk
  education and disaster reduction
• Discussion on Theory and Method of Integrated
  Disaster Risk Management

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3.6 IRG Studies in China
Progress and Development Trend of IRG Research

• The Chinese Government
• has attached great importance to the emergency
  management of the public security with SARS
  breaking out in 2003
• has integrated the prevention of different risks
  and sustainable development closely in the
  national 11th Five-year Plan
• proclaimed the emergency program for the central
  government, its departments, local governments
  and large state-owned enterprises in 2005

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3.6 IRG Studies in China
Progress and Development Trend of IRG Research

• NDRCC The National 11th Five-year Year
  Comprehensive Disaster Reduction Planning
• SCEO/SDRC The National 11th Five-year Planning
  for Emergency System Construction of Public
  Events
• CNC-IHDP/ RG (2005)
• MOST The National 11th Five-year Science and
  Technology Support ProgramIRG
• CIRC China Insurance Regulatory Commission have
  published China Risk Governance Report (2006)

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3.7 Development Trend
Progress and Development Trend of IRG Research

• Establish the system and mechanism for global and
  regional harmonious development and integrated
  disaster risk management
• Establish the integrated disaster risk science
  and technology supporting system
• Establish the regional integrated disaster risk
  governance system (mode)

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4. Research Scope and Key Scientific and
Technological Issues for IHDP-IRG Core
Scientific Project

• 4.1 Introduction of IRG
• 4.2 Focuses of IRG
• 4.3 Key Scientific, Technical and Managerial
  Issues for IRG Core Scientific Project

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Research Scope and Key Scientific and
Technological Issues for IHDP-IRG Core
Scientific Project
4.1 Major Targets of Core Scientific Project

• Integrated Risk Governance ( IRG )
• is an inter-discipline project with the aim to
  deepen the understanding of risk formation
  mechanism and diffusion behavior
• develop some global and regional integrated
  disaster risk model
• deepen the understanding of the dynamic and
  non-dynamic mechanism for formation and change of
  global and regional disaster risks under the
  motivation of global environmental change and
  globalization
• provide operational assessment tools

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Research Scope and Key Scientific and
Technological Issues for IHDP-IRG Core
Scientific Project
4.1 Major Targets of Core Scientific Project
Major Targets for IRG Core Scientific Plan
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Change of Disaster Risk System
Research Scope and Key Scientific and
Technological Issues for IHDP-IRG Core
Scientific Project
4.2 Focuses of IRG
In view of the multi-discipline integration
analysis, deepen the understanding of risk
formation and change of disaster risk under the
background of global environmental change.

• To take the multi-discipline integration analysis
• To deepen the understanding of risk formation
  mechanism under the background of global
  environmental change
• To deepen the understanding diffusion behavior in
  the globalization system

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4.2 Focuses of IRG
Research Scope and Key Scientific and
Technological Issues for IHDP-IRG Core
Scientific Project
Focus I

• It is planned to undertake studies in the
  following six aspects
• Interaction of mankind and nature and formation
  mechanism of disaster risks under the global
  opening system
• Development trend of the worlds disaster risks
  and the changing trend of its tempo-spatial
  pattern under the background of global warming
• Predictability of global environmental change and
  tempo-spatial change of natural disaster risks
• Predictability of global environmental change and
  tempo-spatial change of ecological disaster risks
  
• Globalization and global diffusion and diffusion
  mechanism of disaster risks
• Feedback mechanism for impacts of catastrophes on
  the regional and even global environment

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Modeling and Simulation of Disaster Risk
Research Scope and Key Scientific and
Technological Issues for IHDP-IRG Core
Scientific Project
4.2 Focuses of IRG
According to the completeness of samples ( large
samples, small samples and incomplete samples ),
select and develop a new generation assessment
model for integrated disaster risk and establish
the regional and global disaster risk simulation
system under the different environmental changes.
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4.2 Focuses of IRG
Research Scope and Key Scientific and
Technological Issues for IHDP-IRG Core
Scientific Project
Focus II

• It is planned to undertake studies in the
  following six aspects
• Disaster risk assessment modelling system (
  different tempo-spatial scales and different
  conditions of originating mechanism )
• The downscaling and up-scaling of disaster risk
  modelling in different conditions of causing
  mechanism
• Disaster risk vulnerability, resilience
  assessment modelling with small samples and
  incomplete samples and improvement of the
  regional and global integrated disaster risk
  model
• Development of social vulnerability assessment
  model for regional and global integrated disaster
  risk
• Development of integrated risk simulation and
  modelling tools under different situations and
  conditions
• Global and regional disaster risk modeling and
  simulation and division of high-risk zones

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Regional Integrated Disaster Risk Governance Mode
Research Scope and Key Scientific and
Technological Issues for IHDP-IRG Core
Scientific Project
4.2 Focuses of IRG
In view of research to practice, improve as a
whole the regional integrated disaster risk
governance mode for alleviating the risk
influence and promoting the worlds sustainable
development.
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4.2 Focuses of IRG
Research Scope and Key Scientific and
Technological Issues for IHDP-IRG Core
Scientific Project
Focus III

• It is planned to undertake studies in the
  following six aspects
• Construction of information service platform for
  preventing the risks due to the global
  environmental change
• Standard system suitable for different countries
  and regions to prevent different risks
• Global-scale mode for sustainable development and
  IRG of regions with high disaster risks
• Regional and global large-scale disaster risk
  governance mode
• Collection, promotion and application of local
  experiences in traditional governance of disaster
  risk
• Aid mode for small island countries and other
  weak regions under global environmental change to
  govern the disaster risks

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Approach for Disaster Risk Transfer
Research Scope and Key Scientific and
Technological Issues for IHDP-IRG Core
Scientific Project
4.2 Focuses of IRG
In view of the inter-discipline (natural
sciences, social sciences and human sciences and
technology), go deep in exploring approaches for
transfer of catastrophe risks.
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4.2 Focuses of IRG
Research Scope and Key Scientific and
Technological Issues for IHDP-IRG Core
Scientific Project
Focus IV

• It is planned to undertake studies in the
  following eight aspects
• Institutional design with risk adaptation under
  the global environmental change
• Technology of reducing risks with different
  tempo-spatial dimensions and different reasons
  for formation
• Safety building of enterprises and communities
  and integrated risk management system
• Mechanism and system for promoting the insurance
  and re-insurance against catastrophe risks
• Trans-national system design and technology
  development for improving the global-dimension
  catastrophe emergency and aid system.
• Financial aid mechanism for improving the
  construction of IRG infrastructures for high-risk
  regions
• Organization mechanism for promoting and
  improving the volunteer system for catastrophe
  emergency response
• Mechanism for promoting and improving the public
  financial support system of risk education

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4.3 Key Scientific, Technical and Managerial
Issues for IRG Core Scientific Project
Research Scope and Key Scientific and
Technological Issues for IHDP-IRG Core
Scientific Project
Framework of Core Science Plan for IHDP-IRG
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4.3 Key Scientific, Technical and Managerial
Issues for IRG Core Scientific Project
Research Scope and Key Scientific and
Technological Issues for IHDP-IRG Core
Scientific Project
Core Research Issues of IHDP-IRG ( STMP Model )
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4.3 Key Scientific, Technical and Managerial
Issues for IRG Core Scientific Project
Research Scope and Key Scientific and
Technological Issues for IHDP-IRG Core
Scientific Project
Technical Issues of IRG
Scientific Issues of IRG
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4.3 Key Scientific, Technical and Managerial
Issues for IRG Core Scientific Project
Research Scope and Key Scientific and
Technological Issues for IHDP-IRG Core
Scientific Project
Managerial Issues of IRG
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Research Scope and Key Scientific and
Technological Issues for IHDP-IRG Core
Scientific Project
Integrated Disaster Risk Governance System (Form)
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4.3 Key Scientific, Technical and Managerial
Issues for IRG Core Scientific Project
Research Scope and Key Scientific and
Technological Issues for IHDP-IRG Core
Scientific Project

• It is intended to carry out in-depth studies in
  the following aspects
• Improve the theory and methodology for measuring
  integrated disaster risk
• Build up the system, mechanism and legal system
  of integrated disaster risk governance
• Reveal the formation mechanism (dynamics) of
  integrated disaster risks and resolve the
  scientific and technological problems for their
  modelling and simulation, namely, set up the
  dynamic modeling of disaster risks and develop
  simulation tools
• Develop, promote and apply IRG modes for the
  high-risk regions , namely, select, promote and
  apply the typical successful cases of IRG
• Construct an integrated risk information-sharing
  platform on global, regional, national and local
  scales and build an effective information and
  technical system for integrated risks, namely,
  integrate risk information and build the capacity
  for public and commercialized services under the
  multi-lingual and cultural environment
• Promote and build a mode for sustainable
  development and integrated risk governance on a
  global scale, namely, build integrated
  demonstration regions for sustainable development
  and IRG in compliance with the global
  environmental change

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5. Implementation Measures for IRG Scientific
Project

• 5.1 Develop and Integrate the Scientific
  network
• 5.2 Establish an Information-sharing Platform
• 5.3 Expand Actions
• 5.4 Develop regional and global network

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5.1 Develop and Integrate the Scientific network
Implementation Measures for IRG Scientific Project

• Enhance the cooperation with the international
  and regional governmental organizations in
  disaster reduction
• Enhance the cooperation with IRG-related
  non-governmental organizations
• Give a full play to the function of the disaster
  risk science network, Integrated Disaster Risk
  Management Forum jointly sponsored by DPRI-IIASA
  
• Speed up the close contacts with World Bank and
  OECD
• Enhance the cooperation with insurance and
  re-insurance institutions and insurance-related
  agencies in different countries all over the
  world
• Cooperate closely with the science networks
  formed under other science research programs of
  IHDP

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Implementation Measures for IRG Scientific Project
5.2 Establish an Information-sharing Platform

• To exert the function of ISDRs global disaster
  information platform and DRH system and try to
  form as soon as possible the shared information
  platform in compliance with the requirement of
  IRG scientific network.
• To strengthen the disaster risk classification
  and formulation of data standards for different
  language environments, especially the measurement
  of economic data for losses due to disasters.
• The available national disasters database should
  be deployed so that the regional division of
  global disaster risks becomes possible.
• To further regulate the regional disasters data
  recorded in different modes, especially those
  major or catastrophe cases with obvious
  influences so as to lay a foundation for
  establishing different disaster risk assessment
  systems.

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Implementation Measures for IRG Scientific Project
5.2 Establish an Information-sharing Platform

• The disaster database available with foreign or
  transnational re-insurance companies should be
  utilized to improve the global, regional and
  national disasters data report so that the
  disaster data can be more smooth and convenient
  for the information exchange of IRG science
  network.
• A disaster risk information network sharing
  platform should be developed similar to Google
  Earth to provide the global data sharing network
  service system for the implementation of IRG
  scientific project.

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Implementation Measures for IRG Scientific Project
5.3 Expand Actions

• Gradually expand the Science Steering Committee.
• To absorb extensively the most influential
  scientists in different countries all over the
  world
• To fully reflect the regional and global
  diversity in the IRG research agenda
• Develop IRG Summit Forum and expand the influence
  of DPRI-IIASA Integrated Disaster Risk Management
  Forum so that it will become a global IRG
  science. Give a full play to the leading role of
  the forum in IRG development.
• To strengthen the extensive academic exchange of
  IRG at the regional level in the world
• To add the academic exchange contents of IRG at
  the currently undertaken international disaster
  reduction conferences, SRA World Conferences and
  other international academic exchanges

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Implementation Measures for IRG Scientific Project
5.3 Expand Actions

• Expand the function of DRH for a worldwide
  academic exchange and further improve DRH online
  forum system
• To further strengthen online disaster risk
  reduction forum
• To provide a fine environment for the IRG free
  academic exchange without tempo-spatial
  difference, especially the information exchange
  system
• To establish the online IRG journals and promote
  the technological innovation of IRG.
• To establish the international science journal of
  IRG to form a symbolic IRG academic garden.
• To establish IRG bulletin and network propaganda
  system to propagate IRG research achievement,
  exchange views, promote new concepts and absorb
  research fellows to undertake IRG action.

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Implementation Measures for IRG Scientific Project
5.3 Expand Actions

• Consolidate the comparison case studies
• The Scientific Project of Case Station and Field
  Campus initiated by Professor Norio Okada from
  Japanese Kyoto University has been in operation
  for almost three years and has made outstanding
  achievements.
• It is to further expand the implementation of
  this research program in different regions and
  high-risk zones in the world.
• To promote the extensive exchange of the disaster
  reduction and disaster risk management projects
  being undertaken in different countries and
  region all over the world so as to strengthen the
  regional comparison research capacity of disaster
  risks
• To gradually form the global science network of
  regional disaster risk case studies.

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5.4 Develop regional and global network
Implementation Measures for IRG Scientific Project

• Establish State IHDP National Committee IRG
  working group
• Certain IRG activities of different extent have
  been included in the work agenda in some IHDP
  national committees
• CNC-IHDP/IRG working group has been established
  in China
• Further promote the social groups with national
  standard disaster reduction and risk research to
  strengthen IRG work and urge CNC-IHDP to set up
  IRG

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5.4 Develop regional and global network
Implementation Measures for IRG Scientific Project

• Mobilize the current national or global relevant
  societies or associations, increase the
  opportunities for IRG research and academic
  exchange and form the IRG global and regional
  network
• A special R D group was set up relating to
  disaster reduction and risk to promote IRG in IGU
  
• Such international organizations as IGBP, WCRP,
  DIVERSITAS have also implemented such scientific
  projects relating to IRG
• To enhance the contact with these international
  organizations and expand the regional and global
  network of the IRG research
• Accelerate the establishment of contacts with
  IRGC, RMA, SRA and WB and OECD
• To expand the regional and international network
  of IRG research

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